Reading Light
Reading Light Siege du Parti Communiste Francaise, Festival d’Automne, Paris (2011) Reading Light – the work presented by Raqs in Oscar Niemeyer’s iconic building for the French Communist Party at the Place Colonel Fabien – was a set of illuminated signs that use text, typography, light sources and electricity to conjure a renewal of human aspirations. […]
An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale
An Afternoon Unregistered on the Richter Scale is a looped video projection of an archived photographic image in which a room full of surveyors is transformed through a series of subtle alterations
Surjection
How to get from here to there Photographs mounted on acrylic glass, neon, Series of 6, each 64 x 94 x 10 cm Art Gallery of York University, Toronto (2011) Seven photographic prints trace the journey of an illuminated vehicle across a liminal landscape. Neon letters, gesturing towards a terse but optimistic instruction, annotate each step of […]
Yaksha Prashna: The Riverbank Episode
Text by Raqs, Published in conjunction with ‘The River Project’, a key project of the Upper Georges River Catchment Urban Sustainability Initiative held from August to October 2010
Casebook
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Surjection by Raqs Media Collective of New Delhi, held at the Art Gallery of York University from 22 September through 4 December, 2011, and curated by Philip Monk
36 Planes of Emotion & One Meter of Truth (Emotion)
36 Planes of Emotions extends the palette of emotions to include states of collective potential.
Strikes At Time
‘Strikes at Time’ is a lucid dream. It takes readings from an occasional anonymous journal, and a long walk at the edge of the city of the night to take back the night.
Within the Flux of the Contemporary
Interview with Raqs, by Parul dave Mukherjee, Published in ‘Gimme Shelter: Global Discourses in Aesthetics’, Edited by Jos de Mul and Renée van de Vali, 2011
Premonition
Premonition, Experimenter Gallery, Kolkata (2011) Sometimes, not even the insistent repetition of phenomena finds you prepared for the uncanny tug of premonition. Premonition: the anticipatory call of things forever about to happen. Even if nothing happens. Even if the emergency lights flicker away a wasting sense of urgency. The Impostor in the Waiting Room 2004/ Installation […]
Misadventures of A Phantom Limb
In Misadventures of A Phantom Limb Raqs gives form to this spectre as a shadowy, liquid trace of an arm
Protected: Whispers in the Archive
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Additions, Subtractions: On Collectives and Collectivities
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘Manifesta Journal #8’, 2010
Now and Elsewhere
Text by Raqs, Published in ‘What is Contemporary Art?’, Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood & Anton Vidokle. E Flux Journal & Sternberg Press, New York & Berlin, 2010. Also published in ‘The Global Contemporary and the Rise of New Art Worlds’, Edited by Hans Belting, Andrea Buddensieg & Peter Weibel, ZKM Center for […]
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